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 X CONTENTS. CHAPTER V.                                                                    PAGE How Names were given- "Kippa"-making — Two Ceremonies — Charcoal and Grease Rubbed on Body — Feathers and Paint — Exchanging News- Huts for the Boys — Instructions given them — "Bugaram" — "Wobbalkan" —Trial of the Boys— Red Noses— "Kippa's Dress." 37 CHAPTER VI. Great Fight — Camping-ground — Yam-sticks — Boys' Weapons — Single-handed Fight — Great Gashes — Charcoal Powder for Healing— Same Treatment Kill a White man — Nose Pierced — Body Marked — "Kippa-ring" — "Kakka" — Notched Stick — Images Along the Road-way. 44

CHAPTER VII. "Fireworks Display"— Warning the Women — Secret Corrobboree — "Look at this Wonder" — Destroying the "Kakka" — How Noses were Pierced — Site of Kippa-rings" — Raised Scars — Inter-tribal Exchange of Weapons, etc. — Removing Left Little Finger — Fishing or Coast Women. 52 CHAPTER VIII. Mourning for the Dead — Red, White, and Yellow Colouring — No Marriage Ceremony — Strict Marriage Laws — Exchange of Brides— Mother-in-Law — Three or Four Wives — Blackfellows' Dogs — Bat Made the Men and Night-Hawk the Women — Thrush which Warned the Blacks — Dreams — Moon and Sun — Lightning — Cures for Illness — Pock Marks — Dugong Oil. 58

CHAPTER IX. Food— How It was Obtained — Catching and Cooking Dugong — An Incident at Amity Point — Porpoises Never Killed; but Regarded as Friends — They Helped to Catch Fish — Sea Mullet and Other Fish— Fishing Methods — Eels — Crabs— Oysters and Mussels — Cobra. 67

CHAPTER X. Grubs as Food— Dr. Leichhardt and Thomas Archer Tasting Them— Ants- Native Bees— Seeking for Honey— Climbing with a Vine — A Disgusting Practice— Sweet Concoction— Catching and Eating Snakes— Iguanas and Lizards— Another Superstition— Hedgehogs— Tortoises — Turtles. 76